I am interested in how humans use discourse information in the language acquisition and language production. I use computational models to formalize these questions. I have investigated how language learners learn grammatical categories of pronouns using discourse information and how speakers represent/use discourse information when they choose referring expression. I have also conducted various behavioral experiments to investigate children's linguistic knowledge.

Collaborators:

Akira Omaki
Rachel Dudley
Jordan Boyd Graber
Valentine Hacquard

Mission

Advancing an integrated science of language, through research and training that links fundamental science with applications in education, technology, and health.